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The USC is Federal law, it doesn’t have anything to do with crimes under Hawaii state law. Here’s what I found on Hawaii:

http://statelaws.findlaw.com/hawaii-law/hawaii-criminal-statute-of-limitations-laws.html

It looks like in Hawaii, the statute of limitations for “misdemeanor or parking violation” is 2 years, and “petty misdemeanors” are 1 year, and the warrants on Shabazz would have fallen into one of those categories.

Now, the statue in Hawaii does get suspended, in these circumstances:

“Continuously absent from state or no reasonably ascertainable residence or work within the state, while prosecution is pending: maximum extension 4 yrs.”

So, that reads to me that the maximum it could have been extended was 4 years. Add 2 years to that for the maximum statute of limitations for his violations, and after 6 years, Mr. Shabazz should have been in the clear, as far the state of Hawaii was concerned.

"An interstate flight charge is actually a federal complaint called an Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution warrant which is a request by the state for federal assistance in apprehending someone who is charged with a felony and has crossed state lines or fled the country. While it is an actual federal crime to cross state lines while fleeing pending felony charges, usually it is filed only to get the federal government to arrest and extradite a wanted felon back to the state filing the request, at which time the federal case is dismissed."

"When they ENTER the warrant, they have already SET extradition limits. If the warrant is from CA and says in-state extradition only, if stopped in NY, NY will confirm that this is still true and if so the person goes on their merry way. This encounter most certainly does NOT result in removal of the warrant from the system - it'll sit there until he's apprehended in an extraditable area and the arresting agency does a locate on the record, or until the subject dies, or until 99 years from date of entry lapses and kicks the record out. With all of that in place, agencies also prefer to leave records in as a practical matter, because even if a subject travels and remains out of reach of extradition, every time that warrant record comes up can provide helpful investigative information to the entering agency (ie it's a passive way of knowing where he's been in contact with other law enforcement)."